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pandr32

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8. Sanders got no foreign policy or tough questions
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 10:51 AM
Mar 2016

...and he failed to properly answer two questions from audience members (went in to his usual rhetoric instead). He also displayed a couple of instances of "senior moments." He lost his train of thought briefly once and completely forgot what he wanted to say another time.

Hillary Clinton tried to be as precise as possible.
One man stood up and asked her a question about the death penalty after he narrowly escaped it and eventually was freed after being found innocent.
CNN wrote that this question put her "off her game", but I don't know where the person who wrote that got that idea. She wasn't off her game, she was intently listening to his story and obviously was a little affected by the awful injustice.
She spoke directly to him and fully answered his question with a soft voice and obvious compassion. She underscored that she believes the death penalty should only be used for the most extreme cases, such as terrorism. She also spoke of how states overuse the death penalty and that federal and state laws are different and don't always mesh--indicating it was not going to be quick or easy fixing these problems, but that she intends to do everything she can as POTUS.

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